Douglas County SAR trains with Care Flight

The team of highly skilled volunteers that make up the Douglas County Search and Rescue (DCSAR) team recently had a training day that included a segment with Care Flight.

They trained on several different topics and search functions including emergency locater transmitter (ELT) search, dealing with multi-casualty patients from a mock vehicle roll over, patient packaging and loading of a patient onto Care Flight.

The segment from Care Flight personnel also gave instruction on the safety aspects of working with helicopters in their search and rescue operation.

Available 24/7, the volunteers respond all year long to a variety of situations, and no two calls are ever the same. As winter approaches, search and rescue calls involve lost or injured skiers, snowboarders, cross country snowshoers, ice climbers and those riding a snowmobile. Most of the calls occur during the dark hours and inclement weather and DCSAR has a high success rate of locating lost or injured people out enjoying Lake Tahoe and high dessert recreation.